Lady Hawke
By Belletiger Bt
A/n: sorry about the late. But here is the 6th chapter of the story. I hope you all like it.
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Chapter 6- The flight of bird and the howl of wolf.
Allen's hand rubbed the side of her throbbing cheek while feeling a stinging sensation. Knowing that it would bruise later on, her eyes never met Cross's eyes. She refused to look at the eyes of that man.
"Why do you care?" Allen asked. Cross only looked at his female apprentice with his arms folded and with coldness in his eyes. "You never cared about my well being , all you cared was I paying all you debts. You never cared about my own happiness at all."
"And you found this happiness with a noah?" Allen didn't said anything which angered cross even more. "did you know he had killed many exorcists from the Order?"
"Yes. That's his nature I can't help, but I had to accept." Allen said as she placed her left hand on her heart. "In the same way Tyki had accepted my nature; destroying akuma and saving humans. We didn't mean to fall in love but we did. We knew the difficulties we would face but our love was so intense we decided to stay together, no matter for the consequences." A softly smile was formed in her face. Even being on the opposite sides, she was still happy with Tyki.
"Even having a second curse placed on you." scoffed Cross in response "you really an idiot, stupid apprentice, making yourself miserable all because of a noah."
"We're apart because of this curse, that's true. But our lives are not that miserable, we're still together and we still have hope to brake this curse for good and taking back our child from Earl."Allen said, with hope and determination on her eyes. " and I think who's miserable here is you, Master."
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Tyki was searching for his Allen like crazy. He can't find them using his sense of smell because something was blocking Allen's smell. And worse he can't go trough solid things in his wolf form ( Most of his noah powers are sealed in his world form).
Krory couldn't help, but watching Tyki going crazy for not finding his wife. He tried to cool off the wolf noah.
"Calm down, TYki-san. Cross-san will not do any harm to your wife."
The wolf looked at him with angrily eyes as if he was saying 'Like the hell he will', before taking from his bag a block with full of notes of debts. Krory sweetdropeed.
"Ok, ok, Cross might not be the best of people, but he's not that bad." Tyki glared at him once more before Krory gave up. Tyki can be stubborn when he want. "Try to look at the west wing. They might be there." With that, Tyki rushed to the west wing area.
Meanwhile in the backyard, Lenalee was sitting o a bench, looking at the starry night. She was still thinking on the curse of the lovers." then, she heard a voice.
"Can't sleep either?"
It was lavi, he sat beside of the Chinese exorcist. They were looked at the starry night. Neither of them could sleep after they heard Allen and Tyki's story from Krory.
"I can't stop thinking about those two, you know?" Lenalee said. "I know the Noah clan had killed many of our comrades, but I still feel sorry for them being separated by this type of curse."
Lavi knew what Lenalee meant. He was also surprise himself when that guy, Tyki, had admitted that the hawk, Allen was his life and he would even go against Noah and akuma alike to protect her. He could even see the fear and the disappear when Allen was hit by that akuma arrow when she was in the hawk form.
"The hawk is my life. I will not allow any hunter, any exorcist , any akuma and any Noah to take her away from me! Not as long as I breathe!"
These were his words before the hawk was hit by the arrow. Lavi could feel he truly cared about Allen, even being an innocence vessel.
"Should we help them?" Lavi asked sunddenly, making Lenalee confused.
"What?"
"Do you think we should help them?" Lavi asked again. "I know noah are our enemy and like you said, they've killed many of our comrades, but Allen-chan is one of us. Beside, breaking their curse also means going against Millennium Earl."
Lenalee was quiet. Everything Lavi said right. The noah was their enemy but yet Allen was one of them: an exorcist like themselves. And breaking the curse they would also go against. Should they really help them?
"I think we should."
Both of them blinked when they saw kanda in the front of them. They were surprised when Kanda suggested they should help the couple.
"Don't misunderstand the things. Allen is an exorcist like us, even though she's married to a Noah. Krory said they only are allowed to have their child back if they break the curse, didn't he?" Kanda said. "You agree no child deserves to be raised by Earl himself."
Both Lenale and Lavi had to agree. No child deserve to be raised by Millennium Earl. That was a very creepy thought. They had met some Noah before and they most of them were insane. They just hoped Allen's child do not get any bad habit from Noah. Especially from the Earl and those creepy twins they faced once before.
Suddenly, a loud series of high-pitched squeals and cries echoed from the enclosed garden surroundings.
Kanda, Lavi and Lenalee surveyed their surroundings, quickly picking up the high-pitched screams. Then, they watched as gleaming yellow dots filled and spread throughout the shadoes. These dots were eyes, all of which gleamed profusely. The exorcists could hear devilish giggles, sounding like a demoniac laughing of a hyena.
Suddenly, creatures that were identical of hellhounds jumped out of shadows and stare to attack them.
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"What makes you think I am miserable, stupid apprentice?"
"You never treat people with kindness master. You make everyone around you miserable and you make the others suffer to pay your own debts. Needless to say you waste your time with drinks, gamble and women. Showing you don't care about anyone, but in the deep you feel alone, Mr. Cross." Allen said.
Cross didn't said anything. Only looked at her with jaded eyes. Since when his stupid apprentice stared to talk back to him and calling him Cross? He didn't want to admit but Allen had mature and she doesn't view him as her master anymore.
"You know, in a way I have to thank you, Mr. Cross."Allen said as she smiled softly. "If we didn't separated and still having those debts you forced me to pay for you, I would never have worked at the mines in the country side of Portugal and I would never met Tyki there."
Cross sighted, in a way it was his fault that Allen that met a noah and married to him. But what he saw in his apprentice was hope and determination in her eyes, something he never had seen in her when they were together. Suddenly the door of the room opened and Tyki angrily gives Crosss a headbut.
Allen sweet drop as Tyki growled at the general. Cross growled back as he appointed his Judgment at the wolf Noah.
"Wait wait! No fighting!" then, Allen stared to cough as she fell in her kneed. Tyki looked worried at his lover. She coughed a few times before she stopped. Uncovering her mouth, she saw there was blood dripping over her hand.
"Looks like you're not completely recovered." Cross mentioned
"It's your fault you took me out from my bed while I was recovering from the akuma poison." Allen said as she narrowed her eyes at her master.
Cross smirked. Now that faced belonged to his stupid apprentice. He still doesn't agree with her marring to a Noah. "Well, better a Noah than some creepy Akuma." He thought
"Master, I usually don't do this, but I need you do a favor to me."Cross blinked. A favor? Allen never had asked any favor to him. Well, she kinda couldn't because Cross always go missing to go drinking or dating some woman while leaves Allen to pay the bills. "Could you give to Tyki a message?"
"Oi, he's not right there, idiot apprentice?" Cross asked appointing to the wolf. Allen nodded her head.
"Yes, but yet he's not."She said "If you really listened to Krory, you should know neither of us remember our half-lives as animals after we return back to human. When I returned in my human self, I couldn't remember I was hit by an akuma arrow. I only noticed it after I returned in my human form. And If I say something to Tyki now, he will not remember when he returns to his human self at dawn."
Cross now remember Krory saying something like this; neither of them remember their half-life as animals, and they always leave another person to give the message of other in cases of anything important happen.
"Please, tell him we should go to Aquila at French."
"Aquila?"
"Yes" she nodded, "Looks like in there has the key for our curse."
Suddenly, Timothy busted into the room, his face showed concern.
"Allen-nechan! The castle is being attacked!"
"What?"
Cross went to the window and saw the exorcist being attacked by some hellhound creatures. Cross gritted his teeth. He knew those creatures; wardogs. Especial type of golems in the shape of dogs. They are hard to kill and physical attacks have no effects on them because of their body armors. However, they are extremely sensitive to sunlight.
"Brat, stay here with Allen."Cross said appointing to Timothy and then to Tyki, "Mongrel, you will come with me to deal with those hellhounds."
"W-Wait! I will come to help you."
"Stupid apprentice," Cross glared at Allen. "You still not recovered yet from the poison. Fighting now you will just get in the way."
The wolf wined as he looked at allen in a way it saying "Sorry, but he's right." Allen sighted in defeat. They were right. In the way she was now, she only would get in their way. Cross and Tyki leaves the room and go to outside to deal with the wardogs.
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At the woods, Mimi was smirking. Her plans were working in the way she had planned. while the strongest innocence users were busy with the warddogs, she would deal the bird girl herself. Finally she will make her Lulubell happy!" Mimi giggled happily.
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Allen could only watch the fight through the window of the room. She would see the abilities of the exorcist trio. She found each of their abilities interesting in their own way. Timothy only wachted the fight in amaze, especially Cross using judgment on the monsters.
"Hey Nee-chan, do you think big red can teach me some tricks?"
"I don't think you should Tim, unless you want to pay his debts too."
Now Timothy thought better about it. After Allen had told him about how Cross was like, no way in the hell he going through the same hell as Allen did under Cross' wing. Suddenly, her cursed eye activated.
"What?"
When Allen and Timothy turned around, they saw a shadow in the room; the shadow revealed to be Mimi.
"Hallo there, sweet bird."
"Who are you?" Allen gritted her teeth.
"My name is not important. The important, you're a dead bird."
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At the battle field, Kanda, Lenalee and Lavi were taking labored breathings. They were really getting tired and annoyed by hellhounds, golem dogs , wardodgs, or whatever they were called. The only one who was having fun was Cross, shouting as much as he could at the zombies.
"I just don't understand how he canhave fun!" Kanda growled, having already lost his patience to the wardogs. "Those things can't just die yet!"
"Stop whining, brat." Cross said to Kanda. "You just need hold on more a few more minutes before dawn. Those things dies with sunlight."
Tyki was also there fighting those golems. He wouldn't understand why they were there. From what he could remember, Earl had told him that no noah would attack them. So why the wardogs are here? He thought on the possility of an akuma or a skull mage being the ones behind of the attack as he felt no presence of any Noah nearby.
BOM!
Suddenly everyone looked up and they saw the tower where Allen was exploding. Up there they saw a akuma dragon like creature and Allen, using her innocence , shilding her and Timothy.
"Tim, are you ok?"
"y-Yeah, Thank, nee-chan."
Allen glared at the dragon akuma. She could feel that Akuma was holding some grudge against her. She never saw that akuma before, if she hates her, that means that akuma was some pet of some noah. It wasn't any news that Allen was disliked by the other Noah members because of her married to Tyki, and it wasn't the first time they face one of their loyal pets only to please their masters.
"If it wasn't for you, little verm, Lord Tyki would never be cursed!"
Allen glared at the dragon Akamua, she was right, she was one of those pets that serve to noah to please them. She hates those type of Noah.
"We have to help her!" shouted Lenalee
"No! Do not interfere." Cross said as he fire more bullets at the wardogs. " Allen is not that weak. She can handle that akuma with no problem,"
Tyki didn't do anything. He agrees what Cross said. As long as Allen is in her human form, she can fight with high ranked akuma. She is even on the par of a level 4.
Allen closed her eyes. The cape of her Crown Clown had transformed into a pair of pure white bird wings . With a quick move, she flew off as Allen gave a very strong punch on Mimi's dragon face.
"What the hell you bitch!"
"That's should my line, you little pice of shit!"Allen snapped, angrily as a dark aura surrendered her.
Tyki almost could feel sorry for that akuma. Whenever Allen is pissed she can be worse than the devil himself. The keyword is almost.
"You caused all this, don't you? First you attack us in the daylight when I am more vulnerable in my hawk form, you use some akuma to shout an arrow into my chest, because of this those exorcists of the order over there and my master found out about our curse! Do you have any fucking idea how hard we worked to keep this in secret while we were looking for a wat to break the curse and have our child back? No, you did! I bet you were only worried to please your master and not thinking about on tyki's feelings too! And now the Order will not leave us alone all because you being the biggest idiot!"Allen shouted angrily at the dragon akuma.
In the ground the exorcists and the noah wolf sweetdropped. The sight of the angered Allen kinda terrified them. Tyki is used to her killing aura since Allen always leave letters to him before dawn, telling how much pervert Sheril was( and Tyki can't blame her about Sheril's pervert nature.) Cross was now surprise, of course he saw Allen pissed, especially at him and in her periods but never this pissed.
"Prepare to be purified!" Allen shouted as she summoned her innocence power "Edge End!"
Allen blast a powerful raw destructive power on the dragon akuma. Mimi screamed. Her body disappeared as the sould trapped inside was finally free.
"Engrave it on your Soul…." Allen whispered.
At the same time the sun comes out on the horizon. Allen's body began to glow at the same time Tyki's Allen fully transformed into a hawk, with her gown being taken by the wind. Tyki also returned his human form as he summoed his casual clothes to cover his body. The warddogs have also become dust with the first contact with the sun. Tyki smiled as his beloved bird landed on his arm.
"Allen…." the noah whispered. The bird nuzzled on his face. "I am happy you're alright now."
"So, You're Tyki; my idiot apprentice's husband." Cross said, looking at Noah.
Tyki glared at him, he does like that man calling his beloved Allen an idiot.
"Please, don't insult my wife in the front of me."Tyki said as he stroked the bird's head. "You might be Allen's master but that doesn't give the right to insult her."
Cross couldn't help, but smirk. Now he could see why Allen had chosen him to be her husband. He might be a jerk, a drunk and a womanizer, but that doesn't make him heartless. He might not show, but he cares for Allen's happiness and wellbeing. After all, he promised this to Mana.
"Well, I guess I can't help. I have to accept she's happy with you, " Cross said as he putted his hat back on his head. Then, he turned around. "Just one thing noah; I have a message from Allen."
Tyki blinked confused. "A message, from Allen? What kinda of message?"
"Both of you should go to Aquila. She mentioned in there should have a key for the curse of yours."
With that, Cross leave Krory's castle, leaving a confused Tyki behind. Cross couldn't help but smirk. That noah has no idea how lucky he has Allen as his wife. But of course, he will use his judgment and Grave of Maria on him if he ever makes her cry or suffer.
"Heh, I never had the chance to tell Allen she looked good with long hair." Cross thought to himself. The last time he saw his apprentice, she had a short hair and almost tom-boy-ish figure. Now she looks a beautiful young maiden.
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"Earl-sama…."
Lulubell entered the room where Millenium Earlm was in. The Earl was playing his piano.
"Yes Lulu-chan, what is it?
"Its Mimi. She is…."
"I know my dear, she's dead. "Earl said still playing his piano. "Don't worry, I will find another manicure for you.
Lulubell kneed as she bowed to Millennium Earl in an apologize way. "I am sorry for what happened, Earl- Sama. Mimi acted on her own and I didn't stop her going any further." Its true she loved Tyki, but she has more admiration and respect for Millennium Earl than for the 3rd child and Earl had ordered no one of their family touch Tyki's bird since Tyki gave them the message he would kill anyone who mess with his wife, even if they are family. She felt responsible for her maid attacking them, risking to bring Tyki's fury over the family.
"No need apologies my dear." Earl said finally looking at the noah of lust. " Tyki's wife is ok and no causalities happened."
"Earl-sama, can I ask you something? You dislikes human like most of us, but why cursing them both? Wouldn't be easier if you just had killed that human and not cursing Tyki?"
"You know I don't like when I am not invited to especial occasions. I might dislike humans but I don't mind us getting involved with them. Look at Sheryl, he likes his married life and I was invited to their wedding." Commented Earl as he returned to play his piano. "Besides, if I had killed her, Tyki would hate us and we would never have Eve, that's something I don't want to think."
At the same time in another room, a small baby gingered wolf was sleeping peacefully on the bed under the covers. When the sunlight entered on the room, the small pup's body stared to glow and in its place was sleeping a 4 years old girl with pale skin and ginger colored hair.
To Be continue it
And finally finished the chapter 6. I can't believe I've write 6 chapter already! I am hope you're enjoying to read this story as much as I do writing it.
And sorry about the lack of the action scenes. I suck in this part.
Ah, go to my profile. I posted the link for the fanart based on this story ^^
Now a little preview of the next chapter. I think you will like it.
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"So, you're new here in Aquila?"
The group turned around and they saw a 13 years old boy. He had a very messed brown hair and brown eyes. He used some casual clothes, almost similar to the ones Tyki usally wears when he goes to work with his miner friends.
"And who would you be?" Lavi asked
"Oh, my bad." the boy gave a foxy smile " My name is Phillpe Gaston, but you can call me Mouse if you want."
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